Elizabeth II: An opportunity for cultural encounter missed

    Although ICTAL.ORG does not dedicate itself to movie reviews, we have to take the occasion of the film "Elizabeth, The Golden Age" (2007) to note the important opportunities that are being misses today.  The movie was horrendous, a sad fact given that its predecessor,  "Elizabeth: The Virgin Queen" (1998), had been a cinematic jewel.   The second only imitates cliched elements of the first, but totally out of context that had nourished these in the original version.  While the first had been original for its character development, particularly the conflicts that emerged as a result of a woman's rise to power within a religious context, the second could have taken the opportunity o explore 'social character', but it didn't'.  Although it alludes to the great differences that exist between the societies of Spain and England, it simplifies these, possibly because its director, Shekhar Kapur, comes from a former british colony (India).   Having focused exclusively on the English court in and of itself  placed the narrative from the point of view of one actor and one society.  Considering the praise that Elizabeth I received and the greater number of persons that were certainly going to see the sequel, Elizabeth II, could have been an excellent opportunity to discuss the cultural differences that tend to be seen nowdays.  However, instead of illuminating this audience about the processes written by Samuel P. Huntington and his "clash of cultures" model, the film left them as opaque as its history.   Someone should make a film to these ends: to show the genuine worldviews of two very different societies and how these intermix in the real world.  The potential market is truly gigantic.